The flames are just a few meters from the settlement – Residents have moved away from their homes having taken with them as many belongings as they can and have entered their cars awaiting orders from the Authorities – Revivals in the Sweet Life of Loutraki
Battle with flames and strong winds the firefighters continue to fight with the flames threatening to approach the settlement Vlychada in Megara. According to the SKAI report the flames are only a few meters from the settlement. The residents they have moved away from their homes having taken with them as many possessions as they can and they’ve gotten into their cars awaiting orders from the Authorities.
The police are simultaneously blocking roads in order to facilitate the work of the firefighters who are trying to remove the fire from the settlement.
Unfortunately, the tension, but also the constant changes in wind direction it does a lot difficult the task of extinguishing.
The flames were removed from Kandili
The fire continues to burn out of control for the third day, forest, houses and agricultural crops. Shortly after 11 in the morning the residents of the Kandili settlement on the borders of the municipalities of Mandra and Megara, but also those located on Katadromon Avenue, they received a message from 112 to leave their homes and move towards Megara. At the same time, the mayor of Megara Grigoris Stamoulis made an appeal via Sky 100.3 to increase aerial fire fighting in the area. However, around 1:00 in the afternoon, the reversal of the wind direction towards the burned lands offered relief to the rekindled front of the fire in the Kandyli area of ​​Megara, as the mayor of Megara Grigoris Stamoulis reported to APE-MPE.
At the same time, they are frightening the flare-ups in the Stefani area, but also on the front towards Oinoi.
“The situation has been difficult since the morningthe fire was behind the Candle, now the forest is burning, since the morning a chinook cannot tame fire– I hope more media will come. It approaches the settlements of Nea Peramos. At the moment they are evacuating to Nea Peramos, where Nea Peramos is not in danger so far. To come aerial. It still has strong winds. The municipality helps with all the forces it has. The fire came from Mandra, we were sending reinforcements from the morning, then we took them to our own area because the fire also spread to our borders»he characteristically said on Sky 100.3, the mayor of Megara, Gr. Stamoulis.
According to the mayor’s first assessments from his brief tour of the affected area, as he informed us, no major damage has occurred in the residential fabric except for 2-3 buildings. However more serious were the disasters in the settlements of Platonas, Ano Loutropyrgos and Ano Vlychada of Nea Peramou Megaron (above the National).
In the area the provincial road that connects N. Peramos with Mandra remains closed as the firefighting forces attempt.
The anxiety of everyone who experienced the morning hours, he transferred to APE-MPE the deputy mayor of Megareon Ierotheos Polychronis, as they saw huge flames heading to the top of Mount Patera, from the area of ​​Mandra. In a short space of time, aided by the intensity of the wind, they rolled to the foothills of Mount Trikeri and spread out in the direction of the camp with the Volis field on Katadromon Avenue and the settlements of N. Peramos within a forest and grassland landscape. Temporarily “we felt unable to deal with the fire without the help of aerial means so close to the capital”he emphasized, adding that the smoke was so thick that there was almost no visibility, while few houses found in the path of the fire were destroyed.
Revivals in Oinoi
A major resurgence occurred earlier near Oinoi, on the provincial road Oinoi – Magoula. Pedestrian units rushed to the scene for reinforcements, while strong winds are blowing in the area.
Specificallythe fire in Dervenochoria develops into three active fronts: the eastern towards Stefani, the western towards Agia Sotira and a front southwest of Mandra, away from the National Highway.
Speaking to SKAI 100.3, the representative of the Fire Department, Giannis Artopioos, said that 5 aircraft and 8 helicopters are operating at the scene, one of which is a coordination one, while the two Italian Canadairs that have arrived since yesterday were ordered to take off a little while ago.
Since early morning, three Chinook helicopters have been operating on the front of the fire in Dervenochoria.
The settlements of Panorama, Paleochori, Pournari, Agia Sotira, Nea Zoi, Neos Pontos, Loutropyrgos, Ano Vlychada, Othona and Eutaxia were evacuated.
Fire in Loutraki – Revivals in Sweet Life
There are continuous rekindlings in Glykia Zoi of Loutraki with the firefighters trying from the air and the ground to put out the flames that erupt in the burning areas. With water drops from helicopters, the fire brigade managed to extinguish the fiery fronts of the fire while the winds are still strong.
According to the first estimates in the municipality of Loutraki, approximately 30-32 houses have been destroyed on the first day of the fire, while two other houses have suffered significant damage in the area of ​​Agios Charalambos. What is clear is that the networks have been badly damaged by the fire and it will take time to repair the problems.
Source: Skai
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